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The Clippers got the Danny Salazar treatment last night at Huntington Park, but the Norfolk
Tides changed the name to Kevin Gausman.

The top pitching prospect in the Baltimore Orioles organization, Gausman brought a blistering
fastball to the mound and the kind of nasty off-speed complements that can upset stomachs.

Gausman (1-2) was on display for only five innings, per orders of the Orioles. The Cleveland
Indians used the same innings-limit plan with Salazar before calling him up from Columbus on Aug.
7.

By the time Gausman left the game, the Tides had built a 5-0 lead on the way to a 7-2 victory in
front of a crowd of 11,648.

“He was good,” Clippers catcher Omir Santos said. “He threw a good fastball, and he was doing
his thing. And he had a good breaking ball. He was really good.”

Gausman outpitched Daisuke Matsuzaka (5-8), who entered the evening with a 2.20 ERA over his
previous seven starts.

Matsuzaka’s command seemed off early, and with two outs in the third inning, Henry Urrutia
worked him to a 3-and-2 count. He fouled off the first full-count pitch before rifling the next one
for a home run and a 1-0 lead.

The fourth proved to be a disaster for Matsuzaka. Jonathan Schoop led off with a broken-bat
single up the middle that forced Matsuzaka to move awkwardly. A four-pitch walk to Steve Clevenger
followed.

“He wasn’t hitting his spot with his fastball,” Santos said. “He was hurt, I think. I don’t know
if his back was hurting. It could be.”

Zelous Wheeler hit a fly ball to Jeremy Hermida in right to move Schoop to third base. Chris
Snyder lined the first pitch from Matsuzaka to left for a single to drive in the second run for the
Tides.

Chris Dickerson then singled to load the bases, which brought pitching coach Tony Arnold to the
mound to talk to Matsuzaka.

Arnold returned to the dugout, and Yamaico Navarro hammered another first pitch from Matsuzaka
for a two-run single. Jason Pridie followed with a single to score Dickerson and increase Norfolk’s
lead to 5-0.

Clippers manager Chris Tremie and trainer James Quinlan went to the mound to check on Matsuzaka.
He stayed in the game and got Urrutia to bang into a double play to end the inning. The damage,
however, was done.

“We wanted to make sure he was all right,” Tremie said. “He just did a little bit of extra
stretching behind the mound, and he typically doesn’t do a lot of (that).

“The one ball that was hit back up the middle, I just wanted to make sure that he was OK.”

Juan Diaz had an RBI double for the Clippers in the seventh inning, and Ryan Rohlinger had a
sacrifice fly in the ninth.